Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fastest kicked to 100 , 200 , 300 , 400 , and 500 points , his technique , composure and accuracy , especially from within a 35-yard radius , have made a matchwinner par excellence . |
| 2 | The director retired soon after with a tax-free cash lump sum a lot smaller than it need have been , because all the calculations were based on an artificially small definition of final pensionable salary . |
| 3 | But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke . |
| 4 | So can we try that just to from a seated position not from from up the front . |
| 5 | From the eyelid down , one cheek was a mask of blood ; the eye stared opaquely from under a half-closed lid . |
| 6 | He spins back to his family , snatching the napkin from his collar , his chin jutting righteously from beneath a press-lipped mouth . |
| 7 | The road , now heading east once more , climbs onward to within a short walk 's distance from that same awesome Rhone glacier before tackling the highest pass of the trip , the Furka ( 2,431m , 7,974ft ) , which forms the boundary between cantons Valais and Uri . |
| 8 | In this case the problem comes , if not exactly within the secretary of state 's own department , at least from within a public agency . |
| 9 | This kind of activity is seen as marginal to the work of the prison instead of as a central opportunity to reawaken feelings and capacities which have been stunted . |
| 10 | It conforms to the detailed historical evidence which is available and the occurrence of mergers in waves instead of as a continuous process undermines the statistical assumptions on which the former analysis is based . |
| 11 | The difference between telex and the newer systems being developed ( eg facsimile transmission ) is that the latter enable electronic mail to be passed to and from a terminal on an individual 's desk , instead of to a separately-located telex machine in another office . |
| 12 | Where it differs significantly from Gournia is in being situated in the bottom of a steep-sided valley instead of on a low hill ; in a sense , the Zakro site is the mirror image of that of Gournia . |
| 13 | On Dec. 29 Cuba and the Soviet Union — with which Cuba conducted more than 70 per cent of its total trade — concluded a trade agreement for 1991 only , instead of for a five-year period as in the past . |
| 14 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
| 15 | We approach it in a hit-and-miss sort of way instead of through a systematic communication programme . |
| 16 | A more ambitious change sought to require complainants to present their cases orally to the magistrate , instead of through a written statement composed by an intermediary . |
| 17 | There may be a beginning and end to the track , and the train will go backwards and forwards , instead of round a continuous track . |
| 18 | Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London . |
| 19 | Direct injection , where the fuel is burned inside the cylinder head instead of in a separate chamber , is another big advance now used increasingly on smaller car engines . |
| 20 | Direct injection ( DI ) , where the combustion process takes place inside the cylinder head with high pressure fuel injection , instead of in a separate chamber , offers even better fuel economy — up to 12 per cent better than an indirect injection ( IDI ) . |
| 21 | A way to avoid this difficulty might be to put the political team on top of the bureaucratic hierarchy instead of in a separate box at the side of it . |
| 22 | As for his right eye , this was a perfect startling blue , gazing out blankly from beneath a solitary tuft of eyebrow . |
| 23 | Well there could be a whole range of different therapies that would be appropriate , depending on on the individual needs of the persons involved , erm but certainly in in a therapeutic situation erm one is able to establish a relationship with another caring adult that can readdress those erm perhaps foundations in the personality that were not able to develop appropriately in their early childhood . |